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Buffering at 42,000 Feet: My Slow Descent Into Wi-Fi Madness
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Buffering at 42,000 Feet: My Slow Descent Into Wi-Fi Madness

Stranded in the sky, wrestling with the ultimate modern inconvenience: slow in-flight Wi-Fi. What begins as a minor digital frustration spirals into an existential crisis at 570 miles per hour.

I began to wonder if I’d accidentally wandered into some retro-themed, low-bandwidth, vintage-plane experience without realizing it. Did I miss the stewardess saying, “And welcome aboard Flight 972, our Heritage Edition—where we bring you the authentic 1990s flying experience, including spotty Wi-Fi, flip phones in the emergency seatbacks, and a once-a-decade view of someone turning off their Discman?”

In this episode, Dan van Moll is exploring the absurdity of our 21st-century dependence on Wi-Fi as one traveler's inflight connection issues lead to a full-blown mental meltdown at 42,000 feet. Tune in for a satirical take on modern anxieties, technological expectations, and the existential humor of trying to check Instagram from the stratosphere.

Written by Dan van Moll | Narrated by Chris Costner
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